My Teacher, My Obsession (2018 TV Movie)
6/10
funny stuff
30 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This was one wacky-ass production. It also has the extremely rare distinction of featuring actors whose acting ability seems to somehow degrade and get substantially worse as the film goes on.

the setup is simple, yet somehow bungled; a high school girl, Kyla, becomes psychotically obsessed with a new sexy teacher, Chris Sumner. Rather than plod along tediously with her antics in trying to get to him, they put the pieces in play almost painfully obviously; the teacher is immediately dating Kyla's mother, and Kyla is befriending Mr Sumner's daughter, Riley. Another girl at school, Tricia, is also obsessed with him, so Kyla goes about sabotaging her life in order to get her out of the picture.

In barely any time, Kyla goes from shifty and plotting, to outright dry humping the teacher and openly flirting with him everywhere, and he puts up the absolute meekest, most low-key resistance ever, to a point where he throws himself at her in a scene that for the life of me looked and felt like a dream sequence of Kyla's, as it was way too sudden and on the nose to be real. Yet it was real.

To make it even more dramatic and exciting, in that very same scene Riley walks in on them and discovers it all. This somehow leads to Kyla distracting Mr Sumner by telling him his daughter has a drinking problem that was never before mentioned, and never brought up again.

The editing of this film makes it feel like they just flat-out removed more than half of the plot, which was probably for the best, because the remaining result is so bad it's good. It's hilarious how they just completely give up being serious half-way through, and start throwing in laugh out loud one-liners and incoherent dramatic twists.
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